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silverly wrote:(Rainwater sites city directory entries up to 1944.)

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Just a little bit of information about this souvenir spoon manufacturer. His full name was Louis David Anderson. He was born in Reading, Berks, Pennsylvania in 1876 and died in Pinellas Florida in 1945. His business L D Anderson Jewelry Company is listed in Reading City Directories from at least 190...

silverly wrote:The use of the term quality in the mark is a a new one for me.

Now that I've made my comment and then done some looking, I do see a number of examples of the Tiffany mark with term "quality."

The use of the term quality in the mark is a a new one for me. I do agree with a second half of the nineteenth century dating and possibly 1860's. Others will probably know though.

1 November 1746 Jno M'Ferlan of Saint Anns Blackfriars Batchelor and Silver Smith married Elizabeth Stevens of the Duke of Cumberlands Spinster. Recorded in Piece 782: Fleet Notebooks (Wyatt), 1746 Oct - Nov.

I'd like to know when they closed. The best I can do is from the Index of Trademarks 1971 https://books.google.com/books?id=juHSV2AHaFYC&pg=PA81&dq=Walter+A+Dunn+Providence+Dunn+OR+Bros&hl=en&newbks=1&newbks_redir=0&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwjF0-bNx_7nAhXpl3IEHZusD9YQ6AEwAHoECAUQA...

Dominick & Haff Martha Washington introduced in 1926.

silverly wrote:It would be no surprise if the obituary was not entirely accurate.

Or more likely, misleading.

The Benjamin Vinegar you are referring to was a son of the Benjamin Vinegar who partnered with his brother Jacob to form Vinegar Bros. Because family members only record Jacob as Benjamin's brother and that is all that is shown in the 1900 census, I misled myself, the subject gentleman did die in D...

The Benjamin Vinegar you are referring to was a son of the Benjamin Vinegar who partnered with his brother Jacob to form Vinegar Bros.

From what I can gather, Benjamin and Jacob Vinegar immigrated to the U S from Russia in 1893. Benjamin was born in about 1880 and Jacob about 1889. Both were silver spinners. Vinegar Bros changed their name to Ariston in 1927. In the 1940's Benjamin was working for Gorham and Jacob for Farber.

I think the pattern is Baker Manchester's Amaryllis which was introduced in 1951.

Isaac Henry Weston died in Portland, ME in 1861, so that narrows the date on your piece a bit. In 1854 when he married Ellen Whiting he was residing in Auburn, ME. Just to round things out, he was born in 1829.

1872 Benjamin Haynes and Orlando Lawton are listed as importers and jobbers crockery and glassware and proprietors Pacific Plate Works, 611 Market, Grand Hotel in the San Francisco Directory.

The first letter is a round hand "S." It is not a common ampersand to me either, but I think I have seen it in the past. Sorry, I can't help with the maker or retailer.

Welcome to the forum. The pattern is Doris which was introduced in 1907, and the trademark is International.

John Helbert Israel in partnership with Israel Israel of Saint Mary Axe, in the city of London, merchants, were still around in November 1815 as the were noted as petitioning creditors in the bankruptcy proceedings against George Gray (J. & G. Gray) . See: http://www.925-1000.com/forum/viewtopi...

And welcome to the forum!

Looks like Hotchkiss & Schreuder Syracuse third quarter of the nineteenth century.

Just amazing! Thank you. This spoon turned up in Sumner, Washington.